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It Bites – ‘Map Of The Past’/’The Tall Ships’ (InsideOut Music)

It Bites – ‘Map Of The Past’/’The Tall Ships’ (InsideOut Music)

Posted by | May 11, 2021 | ,

There appears to be a penchant among musicians to do one of two things as a result of the lockdowns – write new music or play with their old stuff. The latter appears to be the case with the prog/fusion band of the 80s, It Bites. However, rather than just do one album, they have remixed/remastered the concept album ‘Map of the Past’ (2012) and their album from 2008 ‘The Tall Ships’. David O’Neill supposes that whilst the musical content is already known to the band’s following, the fact that these re-issues are accompanied by a significant amount of extra booklets than were originally supplied and there is the ability to obtain them on vinyl for the first time to capture the new interest in this media among a different generation.

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ForeignWolf – ‘Your Weapons, Your Words’ EP (Self-Released)

ForeignWolf – ‘Your Weapons, Your Words’ EP (Self-Released)

Posted by | May 10, 2021 | ,

ForeignWolf are another of those bands who cross our radar on a regular basis – a relatively new name (as evinced by the fact that this is their only their second EP and they had only a handful of gigs under their belts before the pandemic stymied any further attempts to cut their teeth live) but one that comes with a plethora of experience in terms of its collective and individual membership, with their line-up involving members from various outfits who have featured on these pages in the past, including (the now defunct) Altus and punk soul rebels Paper Tigers.

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